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fistfuloflightning · 12 days

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khorazir · 8 months

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“Rómenna”

The eleventh of eleven new watercolours depicting places in Middle-earth (and Númenor) for an upcoming book. All eleven artworks are available as A4 prints at my shop now, either as single prints or as a set:

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #tolkien art #tolkien illustration #numenor #romenna #silmarillion #unfinished tales #places in middle earth #illustration #drawing #watercolour #aldarion

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brighter-arda · 10 months

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Mariners

Day 1 @tolkiengenweek

Part 19 of toi's indigenous tolkien series

[image description: eight images

1: wood surface, border of sticks lashed together, text = CIRDAN Shipwright

2: old CHamoru man with a grey beard and woven leaf hat

3: CHamoru man on blue background with sketched ships

4: wood surface, border of sticks lashed together, text = EARENDIL Lover of the Sea

5: wood surface, border of sticks lashed together, text = ELROS First Sea King

6: young CHamoru man wearing shell and sinahi necklaces holding a conch shell. Background is rocks and the sea with a faint map of Numenor

7: CHamoru man with leaves and flowers around his neck, a grass skirt, holding a oar. Background is sailing boat.

8: wood surface, border of sticks lashed together, text = ALDARION Mariner]

#cirdan #earendil #elros #aldarion #silmarillion #pacific tolkien #moodboards and edits #toi's indigenous tolkien series #toi's creations #tolkiengenweek #mepoc #contains image description

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aredhels · 10 months

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At that time Aldarion first looked on Erendis with love; and he stood long in the stern looking back as the Palarran passed out to sea. It is said that he hastened his return, and was gone less time than he had designed; and coming back he brought gifts for the Queen and the ladies of her house, but the richest gift he brought for Erendis, and that was a diamond.

#silmedit #tolkienedit #oneringnet #aldarion and erendis #aldarion #erendis #unfinished tales #userlyndeth #tuserosie #mine #*pspam #*tolkien #100

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vviths · 5 months

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aldarion and erendis , back then

#the silmarillion #numenor #silm art #made in the am #aldarion #erendis #unfinished tales #when you know you know... when you know you know... on repeat... for them...

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eglerieth · 6 months

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#Polls #poll #eglerieth #tolkien #numenor #aldarion #erendis #Sea longing #tar-aldarion #Anardil #Ancalimë #Meneldur #silmarillion

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thefashbasher · 1 year

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aldarion and erendis meeting for the first time

#i am literally Obsessed with aldarion #i never see him talked about but he is everything to me.#aldarion #erendis #tar-aldarion #númenor #numenor #númenóreans #Tolkien #art #drawing #my art #digital art #fan art #sketch #silmarillion #silmart #Tolkien art

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child-of-hurin · 1 year

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It is also stated that ‘no records are now left of the later voyages that Aldarion made,’ but that ‘it is known that he went much on land as well as sea, and went up the River Gwathló as far as Tharbad, and there met Galadriel’.

Galadriel truly is the Forrest Gump of Arda i stg

#she's met EVERYONE #galadriel #unfinished tales #aldarion #the mariner's wife #the Valar? yeah I know them #Durin? Which one? I've met several #hahaha that's a funny joke. Dari would have loved it. Oh that's my nickname for Tar-Aldarion the 6th ruler of Numenor

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biginvisiblespider · 11 months

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erendis sketch (kind of, it has some colour)

The scene where erendis gives aldarion the bough of oiolairë is one of my favourite sections of the tale.

A lot of quotes and thoughts under the cut, spoilers for some of Aldarion and Erendis, you have been warned, this is long!!

The oiolairë is a really interesting númenórean custom, in 'Aldarion and Erendis' it says,

'Here must be told of the custom that when a ship departed from Númenor over the great sea to Middle-earth a woman, most often of the captain's kin, should set upon the vessel's prow the Green Bough of Return; and that was cut from the tree oiolairë, that signifies 'Ever-summer', which the Eldar gave to the Númenóreans, saying that they set it upon their own ships in token of friendship with Ossë and Uinen. The leaves of evergreen, glossy and fragrant; and it throve upon sea-air'.

At this point in the story Aldarion and his father Meneldur have fought over to Aldarion's voyaging when, as the heir, his father thinks he should be taking more interest in his own people.

'Meneldur forbade the Queen and the sisters of Aldarion to bear tbe bough of oiolairë to Rómenna where lay the Palarran, saying that he refused his blessing to his son'

In response Aldarion says,'If I must go without blessing or bough, then so I will go'.

The blessing and the bough are linked, the favour of the king and the friendship of Ossë and Uinen who calms the sea, as well as a token of safe return. In Numenor Uinen was particularly honoured for saving the ships so you can see why the Queen doesn't want Aldarion to leave without the branch.

After this, Erendis says that she will bring the branch and delivers it as the ship is preparing to leave, 'little though she loved the noise and bustle of the great harbour and the crying of the gulls'.

This is the point when Aldarion falls in love with Erendis so it is clearly an important moment but I think it goes a little deeper than that.

Throughout the tale there's a clear split in what the pair value, the sea and the land, the ships and the woods, and this is one of the few moments where these opposite priorities co-exist. Erendis delivers a branch which thrives on sea-air, a tree as a symbol of friendship with the sea but also of a safe return! This little moment, to me, shows how their relationship could have developed if they were both willing to compromise.

I also find it interesting how the bough is a token of friendship with Uinen, when Erendis later declares Uinen as her enemy.

'I am no daughter of Uinen: rather is she my foe.'

There is also a neat parallel with the elven birds and the tree they receive as gifts from the eldar at their wedding. All of these originate with the elves, can be used to symbolise their love and each one changes in meaning for them as their relationship breaks down.

Focusing on the oiolairë, after Aldarion decides to leave again (and I could talk for ages on their conversation before he leaves!!) Erendis sets the branch of oiolairë but hides her tears until the ship is gone.

On this trip Aldarion is gone for longer than expected as the haven at Vinyalonde is destroyed and he has to rebuild and on the journey home he is swept off-course, to the north. When Aldarion finally sees Numenor again he notices that the oiolairë has withered in the cold.

Ominous! For such a symbolic branch to die can't help the overall feeling in Numenor at this point that Aldarion is doing something wrong!

'the Venturers were fallen out of esteem; for men thought that he had treated Erendis ill.'

After their wedding, eight years after his last voyage and with their daughter not even four years old, Aldarion sets off again but promises to return in two years. This time, Erendis does not set the branch on his ship or send one, the wife of Aldarion's captain does it instead.

This seems to be the point where Erendis gives up on him, dismissing the elven birds (I could talk about that as well but i will resist) and she leaves to live in her home in the centre of Numenor, far from the sea. When Aldarion does not return after the promised two years she stays there and when he does eventually get back he finds his house empty.

When Aldarion becomes king he journeys to Middle-earth again but, 'It is recorded that upon the prow of Hirilonde he set no bough of oiolairë, but the image of an eagle with golden beak and jewelled eyes, which was the gift of Cirdan.'

Every important voyage Aldarion takes mentions the branch of oiolairë, which is enough to show its significance, but its connection with Numenor as well as the elves and the maiar and how it symbolises Aldarion and Erendis' relationship makes it a really interesting piece of the story.

#aldarion and erendis #erendis #unfinished tales #aldarion #this got long #I could go on way longer about this story though #it's so good people need to know

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sallysocker · 1 year

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#tolkien #middle earth #the silmarillion #unfinished tales #aldarion #erendis #silmarillion #numenor #silmarillion memes

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middleearth-polls · 4 months

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#middle-earth #middleearth polls #tumblr polls #tolkien #Unfinished Tales #polls #Númenórean #Aldarion #Erendis #category: tendency #anon your poll is queued

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fistfuloflightning · 9 months

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Tar-Ancalime and Elrond Halfelven: children raised isolated from their heritage and the absent fathers who loved them (but not enough to stay.)

Defined by their estrangement to parents who were the source and cause of the estrangement—conscious or not—both share similarities in their reaction to their fathers, Earendil and Aldarion respectively. In this essay, I will

#lotr #the silmarillion #silm meta #elrond #tar ancalime #aldarion #earendil #I have many thoughts about tar ancalime and elrond as foils #none of them coherent

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spruceneedles · 3 months

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